Thoughts on Streaming Music

Before you read, you might want to familiarize yourself with streaming music. In short, streaming music refers to a subscription based service where you stream music over a data connection from a company’s servers. The thought is that for a monthly fee, you can have access to entire libraries of music without actually having to store them on a hard drive. Feel free to check out the Rdio and Spotify pages for more info. Below, I’ve detailed why I just don’t get the streaming music model and why it’s not for me.

Why?

I ask “why?” about a lot of things. When something new comes out, I usually ask myself why I would need it or want to use it. If it doesn’t fill a need or if I don’t have a burning desire to use it, why would I invest the time and/or money? When it comes to streaming music, I haven’t been able to answer that simple question. On the surface, it sounds great. For $9.99 a...